St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-21
NOT A BLIND PARTISAN.
East Carroll Democrat.

! East Carroll Democrat.
! We quite agree with the Ouachita
| Telegraph in the opposition it is MAX
ing to the enormous fees which are be-
ing paid an attorney for the collection
which should be paid over without the
has been paid by the School Board of
this parish to Judge Rutland for this
purpose and we never could understand
! why. 1t there was money in the State
| Treasury belonging to the School
| Boards of the different parishes, why
didn't Mr.. Burke know this as we'll as
Mr.. Rutland, and if so, why employ
| him to call upon Mr.. Burke and ask
| him for it and pay him one half he col
! lects for doing SOP There seems to
| have been a fearful waste of monies
which belong to the school children and
which is so mnch needed for their edu-
cation. Perhaps some satisfactory ex-
| planatiOn can be given of this matter.
! IF it can be done, it certainly should.
/ The Telegraph thinks the contracts
with Mr., Rutland are illegal and that
! he can be made to refund. 1t says:
/ Mr.. Rutland must diSgOrge some of
! his iII-g0ttcn gains from the school
| funds of the State or somebody Will
/ have to pay. School boards have no
! right in law, if we are not very BADLY
mistaken, to make contracts such as
have been made with Mr.. Rutland"
/ The Telegraph is proud Of the fact
! that it has found one administration
paper not so blinded by partisan zeal as
! to pooh pooh. palliate and defend such
an outrage. If all newspapers were so
! independent and would den0unce
I ,,-I,, fDnu1
/ there would be fewer wrongs commit
/ ted in public office and newspapers
would be the power for good they were
/ intended to be and should be.
The Telegraph still thinks that Mr.:
Rutiand's contracts can he annullcd
and the money he has collected and re-
| tanned as a fee recovered. Several of
/ the best legal minds in the State agree
! with that opinion. Is there an officer
/ in the State of Louisiana from Cover
nor down whose duty it is to do it and
who will do it o-Ouachita Telegraph.
! The Washta Telegraph has lately
opened out a humble bees nest. and
made wonderful discovery that Mr..
Rutland is getting 30 per cent to collect
certain moneys due the School Boards
/ of various parishes. and Immediately
proceeds to make Rome howl and alll
gators to shed tears.
The moneys coming TO this parish,
ont of Interest Fnnd have been pune
tuailv paid to the Parish School Treas
urer, in full, without any intermediate
Mr.. Rutland or anybody else.
| IF it is any consolation for our Wash
| ita contemporary TO fiv off on tangent,
certainly no one will object thereto, but
! if he will investigate the matter he
will learn that Mr.. Rutland's contracts,
! if he has any, has nothing whatever TO
! do with the interest fund as fixed by
the Constitution of Louisiana.-Thlbo-
deaux Sentinel.
IF we have not been in condition to
shed tears already we are prepared to
shed them now. To think that our es-
teemed half English and half French
contemporary should 60 and spell us
| Washital
But, eh-we reiterate our charges and
specifications and will wager our es-
teemed contemporary silk tile, (and
we have no knowledge of its p0sitionl,
that it is defender of the present ad-
ministratiOn.
Not to be argued a complete ignora-
mus, however. we will say, and the
| Sentinel's emphatic denial to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, that MIR. Rut-
| iduu , GtHiid dCGSs kdHo haS INSh"'i'
has something to do with the interest
fund as fixed by the Constitution of
Louisiana. The school money that he
is collecting from State officials and for
which he charges 80 per centum. arises
solely and alone from the fund fixed by
Art. 233 of the Constitution. Will our
esteemed contemporary institute an IN
vestigation on its own account? We
doubt if the Sentinel's editor ever read
Art 233 of the Constitution.-Ouac
Telegraph.
The New Orleans Chronicle says that
our "mare's nest. " despite its political
bias, is worthy of immediate answer by
| those conversant with the facts. Mr.
! Warren Easton, State Superintendent
| of Public Education, who above all 9TH
ers in the State is expected to look after
| the school interests, has had nothing to
say We believe it is on the record,
| however, that he has been assisting Mr..
| Rutland by recommending him to the
employment of the different school
boards. .-Ouachita Telegraph.
The Amite City Independent COM
menting upon the article appearing in
the Ouachita Telegraph under the cap
| ton, "a Public Shame, says:
We find this article in the Ouachita
Telegraph, and take pleasure in giving
it credit for calling attention to such an
outra 90 Wa wara not awara of these